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Legal limits to tribal governance: coal mining in Meghalaya, India
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017Land in Meghalaya, India, was traditionally agricultural land, owned by the community. With increasing privatization and rising commercial value of land for non-agricultural use, many owners have sold the land for mining operations. So-called rat-hole coal mining has resulted in environmental degradation as well as in the loss of lives of miners, most of whom are from outside the state.DocumentThe Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI) in Malawi: Selected findings on gender
The Program on Governance and Local Development, University of Gothenburg, 2017Malawi’s context raises a number of challenges that the government, traditional leaders, civil society, and the development community are working to address.DocumentTribal representation & local land governance in India: A case study from the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017In India, the Schedule Tribes have remained on the fringes of growth, but less so in the majority tribal areas of the North East. This has increased the interest in the Sixth Schedule, the special constitutional provision relating to these areas, recognising the tribal communities’ rights of ownership and control over their land and natural resources.DocumentIt takes a female chief: Gender and effective policy advocacy in Malawi
The Program on Governance and Local Development, University of Gothenburg, 2017Traditional leadership often coexists with modernpolitical institutions, yet we know little about how traditional and state authority cues — or those from male or female sources — affect public support for human rights issues.DocumentCorruption in community-driven development: A Kenyan case study with insights from Indonesia
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017Community-driven development is a widely employed development strategy for empowering people to choose their own development priorities, to select their own project leaders, and to monitor the implementation of theirDocumentHas the EITI been successful? Reviewing evaluations of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017Has the EITI been successful? Many efforts have been devoted to improving resource governance through the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. A review of 50 evaluations concludes that the EITI has succeededDocumentThe global participation backlash: Implications for natural resource initiatives
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017Civil society organizations can help to ensure good governance over natural resources as members of global multi-stakeholder initiatives like the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Yet a good number of resource-rich countries have legally restricted civil society organizations’ independence and ability toDocumentLocal content in Tanzania’s gas and minerals sectors: Who regulates?
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017The implementation of Tanzania’s local content policy for the petroleum and mineral sectors has been hampered by inconsistency, confusion, and un-coordinated donor interventions.DocumentEverybody lives upstream: the watershed approach for the changing climate of the Hindu Kush Himalaya
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017Globally, the watershed approach has been proven as a way to bridge human and natural systems for the conservation, sustainable use, and renewal of natural resources, especially water.DocumentWorkshop report: Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio, Phase II, Partnership Workshop, April 2017, Islamabad, Pakistan.
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017On 2 March, 2017, Indus Basin Initiative (IBI) of ICIMOD in partnership with Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) and World Wide Fund for Nature, Gilgit Baltistan (WWF-GB) organized a partnership workshop to prepare a detailed plan of IBI for the second phase (2017-2020) of Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio (SDIP II) in Islamabad, Pakistan.Pages